The evening world. Newspaper, January 19, 1912, Page 3

_ —- - SUPREME COURT .|Hven Beehive Bonnet “‘Newest Fashions,’’ Hark Back 4,000 Years ALIS SESSION ~ REDDNNG RON Justice Gerard Adjourns to Residence for First Time in Court's History. Crete and Carthage Stood for Them While Greeks Barred Petti- coate and Egyptians Wore “‘Rate”’ and False Curls. Peekaboo Waiste Roused Wrath of Thirteenth Century Preachers, and Sumatra Savage First Wore “‘Choke”’ Collar— Slit Skirt Athenian. SCENE [IS IMPRESSIVE. Great Apartment, With Crim- Son Fittings, Would Have Delighted a Richelieu, @pectal Term, Part VL, of the @» peeme Court, was held in a Fifth ave | nee dining-room to-day. This ts the fiwet time in the history of the County Court House that a sesion has ever been held outside its walle. Judges have granted writs in their homes, but never before has a regular session been held in @ Judge's home. Bupreme Court Justice Gerard te re- | sponsible for the innovation. He found himeelt crowded out of @ room in the old Tweed Building and, being anxious to finish up the case of Alfred Chester Beatty, a missing engineer, against the Guggenheim Exploration Company, de- cided to hold the trial at his home, No. 7% Fifth avenue. | Tho residence was originally butt by Marcus Daly. It is a big, white, stone front house. From the front door, one pages into a lofty, dim reception hall. Diwectly facing the entrance, are broad doors, opening into the dining-room where the Court sat. The dining-room is Atty feet in length by thirty feet wide. The great red room would make @ Gtting reception | reom for a cardinal. A crimson rug covers the floor, in the centre of which tends an oval and lavishly carved walnut table. About the table stand high-backed, carved chairs, upholstered in red plush. The walls of the big room are panelled with red satin, framed in gilt. The mauve colored ceiling 1s lavishly deco- rated with gilt designs. To the right, against the south wall, {s a great fire- place that covers one-third of the wall and above the fireplace ts @ mirror that reflects the light from the big chan- 4elier above the table in the centre. “GOURT ROOM” IS ONE THAT WOULD PLEASE ROYALTY. Three walnut, marble-topped buffets and serving boards stand against the walls, Five big portraits from the brushes of artists long since dead, yee out prominently. Four of these intings are of women and the fifth cfm that of a man in armor. Among the paintings are Darbes's portrait of Em- press Marie of Russia, Mignard’s por- trait of Mile. de la Sabliere and Will- fam Dobson's portrait of Henry Rich, Marl of Holland. The red room is severe in appear- ance. In such @ room a Richelieu might have delighted It 4s such a room aa would have made a fitting background for Mme. Du Barry's eol- rees, It is an impressive room, well fitted for ponderous legal procedure. Justice Gerard sat at the head of the table, Grouped around the broad board were the attomeys, the piaintiff, de- fendants and witnesses, fifteen in all. Om the Justice's right, at a serving table on which stood a green, shaded reading lamp, Btenographer Sand- feat. right By Nixola Greeley-Smith. Vanity of van- ities, All is van- ity end, also, all is vain, There are no new fashions That bdeehive bonnet which comes down over your curls, dear R fj , madame, and TXOLA which you oon- GREELEY* SMITH aiser to be the very latest mode of 1912, was worn first by the Snake Goddess of the Cretans 2,200 years before the com: ing of Christ. A If you don't belteve it, go up to the Metropolitan Museum and take @ look at the goddess herself. She is there in &@ glass case, wearing a long peaked hat, which is a twin sister to the tall velvet bonnets resembling beehives women have worn so much in New York this winter. Also, she has on @ costume trimmed with snakes—a fashion revived by Mre Arthur Scott Burien, who appeared at ® polo match last summer in a snake She has a very small waist, this little Goddess, one of the first wasp effects on Tecord, and so far as the general public 1s concerned she made her debut at lecture given in the museum this week by Miss Frances Morris, who is asso- clated with the museum's department of decorative arts. SLAVES TO FASHION MORE THAN 4,000 YEAR6. Yesterday I asked Morris, who declares that women have been slaves to fashion for more than 4,000 years, if & survey of the modes of forty centuries does not show a steady progress toward sanity and beauty. But Miss Morris was not inclined to be optimistic on the subject of women’ fashions. ‘@ have had always two dis tiuct forms of women’s dress, the artistic and the fashionable,” she Quswered. “In every age and in all lands, whether in the South Sea Islands or in sophisticated Paris, woman under the dominion of fash- fon hae seised upon the trivial and exaggerated it into the grotesque.” ‘Miss Morris epoke as one having a1 thorities, And she proceeded to get | the authorities out, books, statuettes, | wood cuts and even the dresses them- selves, among them an old blue satin gown that had graced the court of Louie XV. and an English brocade of Queen Anne's reign. WHAT THE “OFFICIAL RECORDS” PROVED. And these things were established from the records of fashion: ‘The Uttle theatre caps of gold thread and pearls which are worn to-day also adorned the women of the court of the Bmpress Jose- On the of the stenographer tendant, ecreen that shut off the entrance to the utler’e pantry, cleared his throat ‘and cried: lear ye, hear ye, hear ye!" ‘The tribunal came to order. It was plain the attorneys, principale and wit- ‘esses were @ trifle disconcerted by the ‘upusualness of the setting. It was sev- eral minutes before they were able to get their usual court voices attuned to the room. Justice Gerard did not wear fle robes of office, tut he quickly got down to business by calling the first witness and swearing him himself. It was mere lke a gathering of friends ¢ odiscues a business deal than a court- room scene, The only things lacking to make it such @ gat! were cigars ané informality. The edings were @riotly formal. AND JAME6 WAS ON THE JOB AT THE DOOR. the doorman, was plainly !m- by the seriousness of it all. In ‘breeches and black silk stockings he stood at the entrance door and per formed the usual functions of police- men. If any feeling of informality was felt by those present a glance at James wae sufficient to imprees them with the seriousness of it all. James's features were immobile. Silent and rigid, he stood at the doorway like some black- bed guard at the entrance to the throne room of a king. Phe gyat red room was but dimly lighted, and this, with the crimson floor covering, maestve furniture and the por- trait covered walls, made an tmpressive ploture. It was almost mediaeval. Had the Justice an dthe lawyer and wit- nesses but worn silken capes, doublets and rapiers the plowre would have been complete. The lawyers talked in euppreseed voices, plainly feeling the atrangences of the scene, While through the dim light the Hurl of Holand and | the belles of ancient days gazed down ‘a4 the assemblage from the walls ed EKING A GIRL. ‘The peckaboo waist originsted in the thirteenth ceatury, when preschers thundered against ite iniquity even as they do to-day. ‘But in the thirteenth century the ‘waists were not known as peek- aboo—they called them the “gates of hell” The allt skirt goes back to the golden days of Athens, when matdens wore parted draperies and tucked them up on one hip with @ cameo brooch. CLINGING GOWN AND NO PETTI- COAT IN ANCIENT GREECE. ‘Tho present fashion of going without Petticoats and wearing soft, clinging gowns also originated in ancient Greece, Where @ fasilonable woman made a bet that all the clothes she’ had on would gh less than two pounds, She won, T’ve no doubt there are wonten at the opera this winter who might make money by « similar wager. Gr about the hips, other to confine the wats known ap the thoracic band, the bust line. and @ third, worn at ‘The modern form of corset came into being in the reign of Menry III. of France, but it was Cath- Grine de Medici who decreed that “all ladies of nt around, And the corset was = solid mould, the wooden splinters of SLASHED S which often penetrated the fesh of At the smiling martyrs of fashio Charles Thelan of No. 188 West| Henry VIIL, “bluff King Hal," who Wigiaty-tirst 3 a Be + pa- |set the fashion of plural marriages, the tlemt to-day as 4 had | first great alumnus of the alimony club, made at N« wentyefitth | had very positive ideas on the subject street in the morning. ‘a |of women's clothes, Henry thought tt young woman who sald was Mar. desirable that married women should waree Lindsay and that she lived at the |be distinguished by thelr oostumes Fwenty-iifth street address at a ball| from unmarried girls, and tssued an last night Thyan tesda viehed | order forbidding married women to Wise Lindsw do was told | “wear w r othes colored caps.” He e ealled ti not live | also forbade women of all degrees to there, wear ps of any sort excegt when ‘Phelan was making bauirles when he | trave proughed by @ whose | are now trying to learn, iange of words be- climax caine slashed ‘Thelan on ‘The man with| “switeh” nr ‘Tee done cullnn or peck corent, wRID iB False hair, “rats,” puffs, curls, &c. were worn by the ancient Bgyptians, Miss Morris of it. Maybe Cleopatre wore « an ¢ two tween the when the stranger the @ With @ knife, the THE EVENING WORLD, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1912. and Hobble Skirt, Copyright, 1912, oy the Press Publishing Co. (The New York World). was known originally as the Nasimova collar and {s still worn by many wome: is known to the eavage Padaung women of Sumatra, who we made of twenty or thirty iron rings—as many as (hey can stand. They best to put the rings on Ml they are lit Girls, and the mést fonable matron is she who can crowd her chin furthest skyward. ‘The Gumatra belle who has thirty rings between her collarbone and her chin rivals in rank and importance a New York woman with s 900,000 peart| necklace. ‘As for the hobble skirt, readers of | Fiaubert's ‘“Salambo” will recall that | that fair daughter of Carthage and all her contemporaries wore gold ankiets | fastened together by a gold chain, Salambo would have had as much trou- ble boarding a street car or climbing into an automobile se any fashionble New York girl experienced last winter. Remembering, therefore, that all is vanity and that even our vanities go back to 2,200 B. C., drop in to see the latest fashions at the Metropolitan Museum. WOMEN VOTERS DOWN BiG TRUST AT JERSEY POLLS —_——-- — Defeat Plan to Appropriate School Site and Celebrate the Victory. One hundred women of Linden Town- ship, near Elizabeth, put @ crimp in the Standard Ol ootopus yesterday when they went to the polls from miles around in stage coaches and defeated the proposition to purchase a alte of- fered for achool purposes by the Stand- ard Of] Company, which has a plant in Linden, N. J. The site is located be- tween Edger road and the Pennsylvania Railroad and ie valued at $4,000. The Standard Oll Company offereu to ox- change it to the township for the old ‘Woodbridge avenue site on which the Linden school, which was burned down some weeks ago, stood, The vote; @gainst the Standard Ol! site proposi- tlon was 107 to 19, Most of those who voted "No" were women. ‘The Standard wanted the other site for the purposes of extending ite vig plant. | ‘This was the first time the women of Linden and greater Blizabet! exercised | dght to vote at a school election. was hardly @ farmer's wife or | @aughter in the township who did not turn out, ‘The two local stage coaches were busy from morning till night and were said to have been paid for by some of the wealthy women of ‘10 place. | ‘The women and men who won the| victory celebrated the occasion with « dance {n the evening at Goger’s Hall. ‘Never saw nuthin’ like it before,” t the polling place town hall. “The women flocked tn here | just tho same as the men. We did not have any trouble except that one wor- an stayed in the booth too long, She was probably. arranging her puffs.” poeta $47,880 FOR AQUEDUCT LAND Appraisers Award to Knollwood Country Club, (Spectal to The Prening Word.) WHITE PLAINS, Jan. 19—Commis- stoners of Appraisal Frederick St. John, James P. Kilby and James D. Connor, lin sections 15 and 17 of the Southern ‘Aqueduct condemnation proceedings, taking land to give New York Clty ad- ditional water supply, filled thelr report to-day in the County Clerk's office. | To ‘the Knollwood Country Club for jcline last night when six young women | moval of bones, | cut about ead; Miss Lugy Hoffman lot No, 21 Highland ave ‘pght ankle dislocated; Misa Edna Baker of No, 2 Highland avenue, bruised How ETRUSCany Gown’ w, (Coo, ov BAsOUtO Loon’? GIRL BELIEVER INTHE EDDY CULT CALS IN DOGTOR Mother of One of the Victims of Yonkers Coasting Acci- dent Objected at First. (Special to The Brening World.) _ YONKERS, Jan, 19—It became knoyn to-day that following the coasting acc!- dent on the steep Park Hill avenue in- were serlously injured, Mrs, L. @ Whitney of No. 15 Stamey place, who ta a bellever in Christian Science, objected to any anaesthetic being administered to her daughter, Miss Elizabeth Whit- ney, upon whom the doctors sald it would be necessary to perform an| operation. ‘Mise Whitney herself ts a Christian Scientist, and she was at first disin-| clined to avail herself of the resources of the medical science, but In time her suffering became so great she begged | her mother to perfit her to take an) anaesthetic and have the operation per- | formed. | Mrs, Whitney finally consented; Miss’ Whitney was rushed {n an ainbulance to | St. John’s Hospital. Her kneecap was found to be broken and she was suffer. | ing from internal injuries, An operation was performed to-day and the sirl's| condition 1s now favorable. Mrs, Whitney afterward explained sh had no objection to the resetting or ri but as a Christian Sclentist she didn't want her daughter to take any drugs. Two of the girls injured are sisters Mary and Daisy Guernsey of No, 63 Van Cortlandt Park avenue. Mary, who 1s @ student in the Yonkers High | School, was knocked the sled ran Into a t fa long time as though dead. ed consciousness her first words w ‘Tell my mother I was'nt hurt at all.” She then pleaded with the doctors to leave her and attend to her companions. Aside from Mary, the young women injured were ail teachers in Public School No. 18. Irwin Guernsey, a brother of the Guernsey sisters, 19 a stuvent at Co- lumbla, He suffers from & disability | and has to @ cane, When told his sisters were badly hurt he went to them, placed his coat under Mary’s head and, tearing his shirt into strips, bound up the cuts of the injured before the doctors arrived. It was said to-day he had contracted a cold trom the expos- vre, The other sohool teachers injured were: Miss Catherine Short of No. 15 nley dered unconactous and Javout the body, Three of the Injured ‘are in St. John's Hospttal, parcels 1072, 1078, 1074, 1075, 1076, 1077, |{ork and 1079 they award $17,180. To the game owners for parcels 1061 and 1083 [they award $1120 for parcels 108 and tor 1005 and ,000 5 mm, ween ——— Steamer Blows Up, Four Dead. ) Ore, Jan. %,—The river 5 35TH STREET MRS, GunpeN Through his attorneys, Behwed and Frank, Mathies denies obtaining thw money, and files the counter claim for 114, the b Jaimed to be due for igarot chased tytween Nov. % 10, and 4 1 Calculating the wanted weeds to be of a private ins ittaled brand and worth two a conta a ploce, 1 would segan that twenty-seven clgarettes a day were cons sumed, It does not r trom the papers whether Mr am was Lady Nie tine or Lady Bountiful, Her lawyer, Sumanea Jeclined to NEC WEAR he did not belleve t | $10 and $12 Values ‘6: (6) half the style or fit. choice is without parallel—the 14 and 16 West lath Street —New 645-65! Broad Street-—Newark, N. Regardless of Original Cost All 32.50, 35.00 & 39.50 Tailored Suits All 12.50, 14.50 & 16.50 Girls’ Coats sti Btol4 AT UNIFORM PRICE OF Persuasive Argument CIGARETTESILL In the Supreme Court. Mai Nashville, Tenn., to recover $1,520 om an alleged loan from William I. Mathues, & wealthy tobacconist, Mr. Mathues al- joges that the § him $18 of a cigarette ! ane Prior to June 1, 1911, Mrs, Markbam, | e . |who lives at No, 40% Broadway, and dnondakaeds who tf now in the South, charges that WHY NOT TAKE! une lont the cikarette manufacturer, | We hes had | whose place is at No, 619 Madison ave- els jnuve, $180 to be returned ‘on demand.” She says $280 was restore | swer to the Farewell Reductions Long Coats To-morrow, Saturday, i Your very best opportunity—some of the season's most attractive styles have found their way into this great reduction sale, which will prove “one big chance” for the women who understand quality and are anxious to save in acquiring it. Full Length Models You can pay twice the price elsewhere for coats of no better material and not The latitude for are irresistibly tempting—snug, warm mixtures of swagger cut, elegant novelties —dressy black cloths and every fancy conceivable at much less than ever before. Remember-—Alterations FREE Sale at All Three Stores 460 and 462 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. PELLER. DAVIS «Co 383 5?/venue Friday and Saturday: Sweeping Clearance A Cup of It Is the Most HS ANSWER TO SNGSTRES SUT Mathues’s “ Ungatlant Retort |.” Seems to Show That Mrs. Markham Used 27 a Day. ‘Tho retort ungallant turned up to-day In reply to a sult brought by Mra Hetella Markham, a soloist of withern songstress Woes 4 by his client. She made have m presents of them to her friends, 1 Mrs. Markh has not filed an an- et fuse to venture ev re) on what A Kune fabrics York. 36TH STREET GIRLS’ TRIMMED HATS Were Induced Mrs, Markham to lend the manufacturer the money—if the loan was made, That Mrs. Markham and Mathues were on friendly terme is ad- mitted by hie lawyer. GRANDPA MAKES HOLIDAY. Me. Nathan Gives 160 Dinner and Dance to Celehrate. When M. I. Nathan, a clothing manu- tacturer, @ot to his offica at No 19 West Twenty-first street to-day he an- Rounced to his 160 employees that he ‘wee & grandfather, “This te the day for us all to cele- he an! ‘oo Tam going to ive you @ dinner and dance. Go home and put on your glad rage, and the dinner will be ready for you at Foss's restau- rant, No, % West Twenty-firat street. When you've eaten alt you can eat, then dance, and. kesp on dancing til you can't dance any more.” The dinner waa served amid great cheering for Grandpa Nathan. The dancing {8 still going on. The grand- child in the case, a daughter, was born to Mre. Ogcar A. Lewis, daughter of PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 19.—Thres @en were killed when the boiler of the siver steamer Sarah Dixon exploded early to-day four miles south of Kalama, The pilot house was ripped from the supers are Capt. Fred Stinson, Mate onfcal and a deck hand, were rescued from the Nine perso: sinking steam meets overy requirement of the skilled musicien; reproducesall selections with every delicate shade of expression;— simple and easy to operate. “It’s all done with the feet.” PO il a TH AVENUE Near 30th 8... N. ¥. Clty. After Feb. 16th-426 Fifth Ave, Entrance 38 St. The Largest Popular Priced Fur House inthe Country The Manhattan Cloak. Suit & Fur Co.,. 35 6 th Between 556. Awe, 16% ana 17% Fine Fur Coats on Sale Today and Tomorrow at ENORMOUS REDUCTIONS 100 in the lot—52 or 54 inches long; light weight; handsomely moired skins. The 19° ner’s satin lined; former price was $50.00.. $65 Karakul Coats, 24.98 _ $90 French Seal Coats, 39.98 52 or $4 inches long; Chappelle dyed; pelts 9 ; former price was $90.00..............6065 pisam Real ocaiel ona alee baat a trimmed with Pointed Fox, Natural Race 149° For the convenience of our out-of-town patrons, this store will $50 Russian Pony Coats, 19.98 Greatest Fur Bargain Ever Offered. Skin- §2 or 54 inches long; made of high lustred, 98 are of finest quality; several handsome 50 Odd Fancy Trimmed Fur Coats coon and Beaver. remain open Sgturday evening until 9 o'clock. SATURDAY, JANUARY 20th Men’s Fine Furnishings At Great Reductions in Prices $6.00 MORLEY’S ENGLISH SILK & WOOL MEN'S UNDERWEAR, 4,50 NORFOLK AND NEW BRUNSWICK UNDERWEAR— « 4.75 to 8.50 Now: 2.50 Imported 1722 10.50 to 25.00 Now: 5:00 Models | Were | White and Natural fullfashioned. Value $2.50, now 1.75 $1.00 FANCY HALF HOSE, Now 50 soc FANCY HALF HOSE, Now .23 IMPORTED SCOTCH KNITTED WAISTCOATS — ‘ For Business or Athletic wear, 6.00. ‘ ANGORA SWEATER COATS, 9.50” HIGH GRADE PLAITED SHIRTS, Choice Neat and desirable patterns, Value $2.00 and $2.50. NOW 1.58” HABUTAI SILK SHIRTS —- Finest make and with soft double cuffs, Vi now 2.98 Alexander’s. Shoe Sale CALFSKIN SHOES FOR CHILDREN Tan or Black Button and Black Lace; Regular and High Cut; Welted Soles; all sizes, Sale Price Regular Cut High Cut Sizes 814 to 1014.... 1.60 1.85 Sizes 11 IN eae 1.85 2.35 Sizes 246% 6 ...... 2.35 2.65 Values up to $3.50, ANDREW ALEXANDER Sixth Avenue et Nineteenth Street i cis ou.